Why do You Brit's Say 'Appy Instead of Happy?
 

Well?

You just couldn't say happy.

and isnt H pronounced Aych anyway :P

more like "aitch"

Because their diction is terrible. We melt words here, but they cut letters out.

S'our fackin' languidge an we'll tork it 'ow we want! :)

The only people who drop their H's are people from the east end of London and the county of Essex (rather ironically, those same people tend to pronounce H as "haitch" instead of "aitch"). If you think that all British people drop their H's, you've obviously been watching too many trashy American sitcoms that beleive that all Britons are Cockneys. Try watching some decent TV for a change.

Anyway, why is there an apostrophe in the word "Brits" in the title of this thread?

You are gravely misinformed, Synth.

no no no.

SUPER NOVA, not SUPA NOVER.

cor blimey mary poppins! i'm a chimney sweep!



we actually all talk like this guy.

that's ok. I talk like this guy:

trade ya.

Lot's of people's like to add's apostrophe's when they're' looking to pluralize's thing's.

Oi vey - that really bug's me.

I bet Lynne Truss has something to say about that.

no thanks, i prefer flying kites.

Why do You Brit's Say 'Appy Instead of Happy?

we don't

East Enders and Correnation Street would have you believe otherwise.

they are londeners, i know its hard to understand, but england is not just london.

Where's Harry Potter from?

Where's the Geiko lizard from?

American talking is horrible. Always cutting out syllables.

not at all. We use the whole word

mr. cantankerous is british and he doesn't speak that way. it all depends on where you're from, just like there are different accents in america.

edit: by the way, you'd be referring to a cockney accent syntheticaly

well the teens now-a-days dont seem to.

Coronation Street is based in Manchester and if Eastenders was truly representative of east London the actors would be 99% Pakistanis, Bangladeshi or Indian and the Queen Vic would be a curry house in Brick Lane

of course it is, silly.

What?

Only If you live in London, thats like asking all Americans why they all live in trailers, get a real house jackarse. This may come as a shock to americans raised on television but we don't all live in terrenced houses drinking tea and reading trashy tabloids. Ever heard of the University of Oxford?

I for one would never dream of dropping an important letter at the beginning of a word. And if Americans want a point of TV reference try 'Yes Minister'.

We are, however, secure enough in our understanding of the categories of sentence to differentiate, via tonality, between a statement and a question. BECAUSE WE TAUGHT THE WORLD EVERYTHING.

DO YOU SEE, ANTIPODEANS?

NB the above statement was not aimed at anyone from NZ, Tasmania or other areas of the Antipodes except Australians. I have never met an antipode that wasn't Australian that I didn't like.

I can do double-negatives because I understand the language. Y'cunts.

your forgetting of course the queens english. the true english.

The amount of times whilst I was away I got asked so where abouts are you from
"England"
"Oh wow anywhere near London?"
"...no"

People need to improve their geography, which reminds me I need to buy a map.

can americans actually find their own country on a map?

some.

when a friend of mine was in west texas, a lady working in a supermarket asked him how long the drive was from great britain to el paso.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

This should answer your questions.